Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Day 36

I compared my end of week stats (points consumed vs/ activity points burned), and it's almost identical to the previous week's, when I lost a pound. I'm psyched to get on the scale tomorrow morning!

Today I ate 29.5 excellent pts. All healthy choices, and regular sugar in my 2 coffees rather than Splenda. (adds points, but they're worth it.) As much I like WW general good-old-fashioned approach to sustainable weight loss, I really don't like their tendency to advocate all kinds of artificial foods and low-point junk food concoctions. Their reference book for food point values is brimming over with cakes/candies/frozen meals, etc. Meanwhile I had a hell of a time finding out how many points might be in fresh-made minestrone soup. Shouldn't food like that be taking up more space in a Weight Watcher food guide book? Frozen appetizers of deep fried mozzerella sticks are in there. But not a basic homemade minestrone soup with some noted variations in ingredients. Stupid.

10 Week Summer Challenge

Weight Tracker

BEFORE PIC

Week 11 Progress Pic

About Me

My goal is to adopt some sustainable dietary changes so that not only will I lose 10 lbs by Summer, but I will not have a problem keeping it off. I began by using my old Weight Watchers Points system/materials, but have now shifted into just tracking calories consumed and burned. My tools: MyFitnessPal.com, a Polar Heart Rate Monitor, Insanity workouts, Tae Bo, The Firm, Crunch Fitness, dumbbells, treadmill, and whatever motivation and dietary/fitness insight and advice this blogging community may provide. I'm learning so much that I expect an entirely different outlook on eating by the time I reach my goal.